Operation Manual

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Working with objects
Working with objects is an essential part of creating drawings.
This section contains the following topics:
• “Selecting objects” (page 211)
• “Changing object properties” (page 214)
• “Copying, duplicating, and deleting objects” (page 214)
• “Copying object properties, transformations, and effects” (page 216)
• “Cloning objects” (page 218)
• “Moving objects” (page 218)
• “Sizing and scaling objects” (page 220)
• “Rotating objects” (page 222)
• “Mirroring objects” (page 223)
• “Skewing objects” (page 224)
• “Aligning and distributing objects” (page 224)
• “Applying object hinting” (page 227)
• “Changing the order of objects” (page 227)
• “Grouping objects” (page 228)
• “Combining objects” (page 229)
• “Locking objects” (page 231)
• “Finding and replacing objects” (page 231)
• “Hiding and displaying objects” (page 232)
• “Accessing and displaying geometric information about objects” (page 232)
• “Inserting bar codes” (page 233)
Selecting objects
Before you can change an object, you must select it. You can select visible objects, hidden objects, a single object in a group or a nested
group, and each object in the order in which it was created. You can also select all objects simultaneously and deselect objects.